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Sunday, January 12, 2014

On
January 10, the IPL franchises announced their retained players’ list ahead of
the 2014 auction. Delhi Daredevils was different from others as they did not
retain any player from their previous squad. This will let the club use the maximum
right-to-match cards (three cards) among all the franchises at the auction. This
will also save their Rs 600 million that they can spend to buy new players at
the auction.

It
is said that the club was in talks with their three key players- Virender
Sehwag, Kevin Pietersen and David Warner, but due to owners unwilling
to meet the price the players wanted, the negotiations feel through.

Virender
Sehwag is now out of form and because of that, he has lost his place in the
Indian team. Even in domestic cricket in 2013, he had a miserable performance.

Kevin
Pietersen performed poorly in the recently concluded Ashes series. He could
manage to score only two half-centuries in 10 innings with a high score of 71.
Though David Warner played well in the Ashes series and topped the batting
charts with 523 runs at an average of 58.11, he also could not impress the
owners to retain him as one of their key players.